BILL NUMBER: ACR 147	CHAPTERED  04/05/00

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   40
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   APRIL 5, 2000
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   APRIL 3, 2000
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   MARCH 27, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MARCH 27, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Correa
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Strom-Martin, Aanestad, Ackerman,
Alquist, Aroner, Ashburn, Bates, Battin, Baugh, Bock, Brewer, Briggs,
Calderon, Campbell, Cardenas, Cardoza, Cedillo, Cox, Cunneen, Davis,
Dickerson, Ducheny, Dutra, Firebaugh, Florez, Frusetta, Gallegos,
Granlund, Havice, Hertzberg, Honda, House, Jackson, Keeley, Knox,
Kuehl, Leach, Lempert, Leonard, Longville, Lowenthal, Machado,
Maddox, Maldonado, Margett, Mazzoni, McClintock, Migden, Nakano,
Olberg, Oller, Robert Pacheco, Rod Pacheco, Papan, Pescetti, Reyes,
Romero, Runner, Scott, Shelley, Steinberg, Strickland, Thompson,
Thomson, Torlakson, Villaraigosa, Washington, Wayne, Wiggins,
Wildman, Wright, and Zettel)

                        MARCH 15, 2000

   Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 147--Relative to the American
Red Cross.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 147, Correa.  Red Cross Month.
   This measure would recognize the month of March 2000 as Red Cross
Month.




   WHEREAS, The American Red Cross in the State of California is
always there, under the same trusted symbol, serving our community
and touching more lives in new ways by providing life-saving
information, training, and disaster relief to individuals and
families for more than 100 years; and
   WHEREAS, The American Red Cross is a leading voluntary agency
meeting the needs of individuals and families affected by personal
emergencies and disasters; and
   WHEREAS, The American Red Cross is designated by the Congress of
the United States in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1) of Title
36 of the United States Code, originally enacted by Congress in 1905,
as the lead voluntary agency responsible for national and
international relief in time of peace and in mitigating the
sufferings caused by pestilence, famine, fire, floods, and other
great national calamities, and in devising and carrying on measures
for preventing those sufferings; and
   WHEREAS, Last year, the American Red Cross trained 819,886 people
throughout the state in essential skills such as first aid, CPR, and
water safety, and provided HIV and AIDS prevention education and
disaster preparedness information, saving untold numbers of lives;
and
   WHEREAS, March has been designated as Red Cross Month by
proclamation of the President of the United States to celebrate the
achievement of the American Red Cross in the services it provides to
communities nationwide; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature of the State of California
takes this opportunity to recognize the American Red Cross as the
lead agency to help families prepare for a disaster and to meet the
immediate needs of individuals affected by disaster and a leading
voluntary agency training families in CPR, HIV and AIDS prevention
education, and in providing other services, including a youth
services program; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Legislature of the State of California urges
that the residents of the State of California acknowledge and support
the ongoing contribution of the American Red Cross in helping our
families prevent, prepare for, and respond to, emergencies and
disasters during Red Cross Month and throughout the year; and be it
further
   Resolved, That the Legislature recognizes the Month of March 2000
as Red Cross Month; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the California headquarters of the American Red
Cross.
